MA Defence: Challenging Knowledge Divides

Digital Divides in the Knowledge Society

Bridging knowledge divides: internet-based academic research in Saudi Arabia

Information Technology is commonly referred to as a powerful tool which can provide many opportunities for developing countries. It is seen in particular as a prime enabler for many societies to become ‘knowledge societies’, and to integrate into the ‘global economy .In Saudi Arabia, government authorities as well as academics and their institutions have very positive attitudes towards the impo...

A GAP that Divides

Cytokinesis in metazoan cells is mediated by an actomyosin-based contractile ring that assembles in response to activation of the small GTPase RhoA. The guanine nucleotide exchange factor that activates RhoA during cytokinesis, ECT-2, is highly regulated. In most metazoan cells, with the notable exception of the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo, RhoA activation and furrow ingression require ...

Ma 3 tch : Privacy AND Knowledge ‘ Dynamic Networked Collective

This paper introduces a new information technology: match (autonomous anonymous analysis). Match enables virtual information integration to build a ‘dynamic networked collective intelligence’ without infringing upon security, confidentiality, privacy and/or data protection regulations. It provides organizations with information and knowledge advantages. The match technology is empowered by a de...

What Divides Textualists from Purposivists?

Recent scholarship has questioned whether there remains a meaningful distinction between modern textualism and purposivism. Purposivists traditionally argued that because Congress passes statutes to achieve some aim, federal judges should enforce the spirit rather than the letter of the law when the two conflict. Textualists, in contrast, have emphasized that federal judges have a constitutiona...